Improvement in bandaging and boxing cheese



A tlnitrd tiene JOEL BLOOD, OF-WATERTOWN, NEW YORK.'

Letters Patent No. 102,755, dated May 10I 1870.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To whom tt may concern Be it known that I, J OEL BLooD, of Watertown,

county of Jefferson and State of New York, have. invented certain new and useful Improvements in It consists in a cheese-truss or bandage providedy with clasps, hooks, or cleats, or equivalent fastening devices, in the manner hereinafter described, so aste admit of the bandage being readily applied to or removed from the body ot' the cheese at pleasure.

Under this arrangement the bandage, while serving as a ktruss to properly sustain the cheese, may also be removed temporarily at any time, so as to allow the cheese to be rubbed and kept free from mold, which forms between the bandage andthe cheese during the process of curing, and cannot be removed unless the bandage is so formed as to be readily taken on.

The manner in which my invention is or may be carried into eifect is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the truss or bandage with the bottom cover applied to it. I

Figure 2 is a like view of the bandage provided with fastening devices slightlyditfering from those shown in lig. 1.

v Figure 3 isa sectional view ofone of the covers.

The'baudage a is made of'paper-board, or other suitable material, and isfintended not only as a truss to uphold and support the cheese during the process of curing, but also as a box, in conjuction with top and bottom covers, to protect the cheese and tit it for shipping and transportation. The paper-bandage, as ordinarily used, is so bound around the cheese that it becomes fixed and pennanently joined to the sides of the cheese during curing, sd that it is impossible to remove the mold which gathers upon the sides of the cheese without destroy'- ing the bandage. And again, when the cheese, after being'cured, is retailed or sold in small quantities, the bandage beingA a iixture, mustbe destroyed as the cheese is out.

' Torremedy these dilculties I make the. bandage so that it may at any time and without trouble 'be removed from or applied to the cheese; and to this end Ilprovide the bandage with cleats, hooks, or

other fastenings of a like nature, so arranged that the ends of the bandage may be drawn together and fastened, or loosened and detached from onel another, as desired.

In tig. 2, the overlapping ends ot the bandage are provided each with a cleat, one cleat, b, being fixed to the outer face of the inner end, the other, c, to the inner face ofthe outer end, so that, when the two ends are, brought together and overlap each other, thecleat c will catch against the cleat b and prevent the drawing apart of the ends. o

Turn-buttons d dare provided and fixed upon the bandages, as seen in the vfigure, which, when turned,

as shown at ll', will prevent the cleat c from being lifted away from the cleat b.'

The bandage can at any time be removed by turning backfthe buttons so as to release the cleat c, after -w'hich the ends of the bandage may be disengaged from one another.

In lieu of the cleats, I can employ metallic hooks or clasps 71., shown in fig. 1. One end of each clasp is made fast to one end of the bandage and upon the other end of the clasp is formed a hook.

This hook, when the two ends of the bandage are drawn together, is pressed through the 'other end of the bandage and into the cheese, and 1s thus held firmly to its place.

By this means the bandage is tightly and securely held upon the cheese, and at the same time can he readily loosened and removed by raising the hooks so as to lift them away from the bandage and cheese, as seen at h.

An advantage attending the use of these hooks or clasps is that a bandage provided with them can be applied to varying sizes of cheeses, as the two ends of the bandage may be drawn together so as to overlap more -or less, according to the size of the cheese, and the hooks can then be pressed down through the paper and into the cheese, as above stated.

I have described the devices I prefer to employ,

but it is obvious that other fastening devices whichwill permit the ends of bandages to be. held together 0r detached from one another, as desired, may be used. After thel cheese has been cured the bandage is combined with top and bottom covers, to'form a box in which the cheese may be keptA or transported. f

These covers I make as shown in tig. 3. ljlach is composed of a paper head, i, and sides 7c, which are held together by a metallic hoop, l.

This hoop is struck up with an annular recess or bead, my, and a ange, n, to receive and hold the edge of the disk or head t, around which the hoop'ls bent.

'lhe sides k arel -tted and held tightly in the hoop, A

and a very complete and inexpensive cover is thus made-one which can be easily and quickly manufactured.

Having now described my invention, and the mane ner in which the same is or may be carried into effect, What AI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A cheese-truss or bandage formed of paper, the.

ends of which are provided with fastening devices substantially such as herein described, so as to admit of the bandage being applied to and removed from the cheeseat pleasure, the said bandage serving as the sides of the' box in which the cheese is packed after having been cured.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification before two subscribing Witnesses.

JOEL BLOOD. Witnesses:

JNO. O. MCGARTIN, A. M. UTLEY. 

